Three Dollar Quill

While I could keep making fun of Walter Russell's element charts (and I kind of want to), I think the more interesting thing I'm seeing in his writings are references to action and reaction, references to Newton, which Terrence Howard repeats. What's interesting to me is how the reference to Newton kind of doesn't work. In the context of Newton's third law, action and reaction are balanced forces which occur simultaneously. According to Russell, action and reaction are successive motions. These are a different kind of physical quantity, and there isn't an obvious mathematical relation between action and reaction under Russell's (minutes-long pause as I decide what to type) philosophy.

So, let's see what kind of stuff Terrence Howard does with this. On page 19, we see him describe "1 x 1 =(ing) 1" as "ACTION times ACTION without a REACTION". Now, I didn't read too much of Russell, but it seems clear to me that the numerological meaning that Terrence is assigning to the number 1 is basically the same as Russell's idea of a single, indivisible mental substance that creates the appearance of our reality through thought. However, associating it also to "action" represents, I think, a break with Russell. From Russell, I see that One is mind, thought is motion, motion is action and reaction. From Terrence, One is action and reaction, and presumably therefore motion, so I'm not clear on how Terrence's ideas could relate to Russell's concepts of "stillness" or "inertia".

Anyway, I decided to read a bit further ahead, and I noticed something kind of amusing. On page 38 (both versions), Terrence refers to the cover of the book, and the question it asks. This is basically comprehensible in the earlier version, where the cover does have a question on it, but the later version doesn't have any text, punctuation, anything like that. The editor (I'm still baffled that there allegedly is one) asleep at the wheel as usual, I see.

Although that question, being about money, does get at the heart of one of the darkly humorous aspects of this whole endeavor. Paraphrased:

"I think the bank is ripping me off." "Really? What makes you suspect that?" "You see, the transcendent nature of mind and being..."

Also, why is it that Terrence is so concerned about, in essence, conserving the number of symbols on each side of an equals sign (4, 18, 19, 49, 52) but claims that matter can spontaneously generate (35)? I mean, when it comes to ice, it's "just" that he's drawing a distinction between water and moisture for some reason, but he does in fact seem to be saying that hydrogen will simply appear in a sufficiently star-like environment.

That's all for now; I'm feeling kind of egh right now.

Good night.